Women readers and writers in medieval Iberia : spinning the text / by Montserrat Piera.

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

xxiii, 483 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

"This book is devoted to medieval Iberian women, readers and writers. Focusing on the stories and texts women heard, visually experienced or read, and the stories that they rewrote, the work explores women's experiences and cultural practices and their efforts to make sense of their place within their familial networks and communities. The study is based on two methodological and interpretive threads: a new paradigm to represent premodern reading and, a study of women's writing, or, more precisely, women's textualities, as a process of creating words but also acts, social practices, emotions and, ultimately, affectus, understood here as the embodiment of the ability to affect and be affected"-- Provided by publisher.

Online version: Piera, Montserrat, Women readers and writers in medieval Iberia Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.

English

September 30, 2019

Includes bibliographical references and index.